Nvidia NTC slashes VRAM with DirectX boost
AI texture compression and DXR 1.2 deliver performance gains
Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) has taken a big leap forward thanks to Microsoft’s DirectX Cooperative Vector support in the latest DirectX Raytracing 1.2 update. Early tests show a dramatic reduction in VRAM consumption while delivering a major performance uplift.
Too much VRAM gives Linux insomnia
AMD's Instinct cards break the nap button with their massive memory
AMD engineer Samuel Zhang has flagged a Linux bug that causes servers to refuse hibernation because they’ve too much VRAM and Instinct accelerators.
AMD slashes VRAM use with bonkers tree-rendering trick
Work graphs cut memory needs from 34.8 GiB to 51 KiB
Rendering trees in 3D has always been a bit of a memory hog, but AMD seems to have chopped down the problem with a new technique called “work graphs”.
AMD developing a 32GB VRAM based RDNA 4 GPU
Up to 32GB VRAM
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn saying that AMD is rumoured to develop a high-end RDNA 4 graphics processing unit (GPU) featuring up to 32GB of VRAM.
AMD’s new chips might have a slower video RAM than Nvidia
But that might not be a bad thing
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s coming chips might ship with a slower video RAM than its Nvidia equivalents.
Nvidia fixes Geforce 375.86 WHQL Pascal VRAM clock issues
With new Geforce 375.95 Hotfix drivers
Nvidia has finally fixed VRAM issues noticed on some Pascal GPU-based graphics cards with the recently released Geforce 375.86 WHQL driver, by releasing the new Geforce 375.95 Hotfix driver.